Not much innovation.

The IT field is quite apt to hype. There are all these visionaries, or revolutionary product/service, which sometimes make me laugh.

If you look at it, most everything that we do today (web related stuffs, for example), whether you write it in java or c++ or pick any other languages, the underlying principle is still tcp. Everything is just building on top of those basic building blocks. Yeah, you could have soap, running over http/https, over tcp. Or you could interface from one big system to another. And what do you use? You may say, j2ee, jms, but look beneath the hood, and what will you find? Tcp.

One would think, why the heck would it take so long for something like web services to come along to *enable* heterogenous to talk. Well, the revolution is not so much in the technology, but the fact that everyone (or the big boys) at least sees that there is money to be made by pushing for industry standards.

It's quite a sad state of affair, to see that there really hasn't been any truly revolutionary technology coming about in more than two decades. Everybody's just rehashing existing stuffs, putting old wine in new bottle (if you will), and makes money by drumming up the hype. It seems like great big breakthroughs come mostly from academia and military research, and since the world is getting...er...safer, with no main villain in sight (who knows where bin Laden anyways, and the Bush administration is just farting in the wind), there's not much coming out from here either.

The way that the world is going, I'm just not very hopeful for lots of "real" innovations and breakthroughs. I hope I'm wrong.